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(More customer reviews)I have to admitt that I first picked up this book because the title jumped out at me, but I'm glad I did. Shrinking the Cat is a wonderful little book crammed full of the sort of lucious tidbits of scientific knowlege that I love. As I read the book I just couldn't wait to work the ideas I was picking up into conversations with my friends. This is one of those books that can make you look at things you already know in a whole new light, and that is a rare thing. I already knew a lot of the facts that Hubbell covered in this book, but I had not looked at them the way Hubbell does. I really enjoyed the way she wove the history of Man's creation of Silkworms, Domestic Cats, and Apples in to a single story tied together the Silk Road linking Asia and Europe.
I'm not sure that Hubble really lays to rest the fears that people have about transgenic plant and animals, but she does a very good job of showing how in many ways we have always lived in a world created by human hands, and that shaping the world is the basic and defining thing that make us human.
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